October 2017
Intermediate to advanced
354 pages
9h 28m
English
Content preview from Mastering Linux Kernel Development
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Mount namespaces
Traditionally, mount and unmount operations will change the filesystem view as seen by all processes in the system; in other words, there is one global mount namespace seen by all processes. The mount namespaces confine the set of filesystem mount points visible within a process namespace, enabling one process group in a mount namespace to have an exclusive view of the filesystem list compared to another process.